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Bert Seager at Lilypad

Courtesy of Bert Seager | Posted on July 1, 2021

Where

Lilypad
1353 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Map
(617) 395-1393

Bert Seager at Lilypad

When

Wed, July 7, 2021
6:30 pm

At Door

$10.

Musicians

Rick DiMuzio
saxophone, tenor
Andrew Schiller
bass, acoustic

About

The Bert Seager Quartet  features piano, tenor saxophone, upright bass, and drum set.  These instruments bring listeners into unexpected sonic landscapes not always associated with improvised jazz. Combined in new ways with dance rhythms from many cultures, and the textures of free improvisation these elements produce a joyful expression of musical intimacy. The shimmering transparency of the sound, and the sense that these musicians are as much involved in listening as in playing makes for compelling and memorable performances.  
 

Bert Seager, pianist, composer, recording artist, and educator, is a member of the faculty at the New England Conservatory. Bert has led performances in international jazz festivals in Canada, Peru, Bulgaria, Jordan, Ecuador, Israel, China and Japan. As a composer, he is a three-time recipient of the prestigious MacDowell Colony fellowship, an artists residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has recorded 15 compact discs which have all been released internationally to critical acclaim. Cadence Magazine says Bert’s music is filled with “effervescent optimism.” And the Boston Globe wrote that his “kind of exuberance makes the jazz world go round.”...

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